Facebook issued a similar statement. The company is “removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware,” a Facebook representative said. Critics meanwhile claim the social media giants’ inability to police their airwaves demonstrates their inability to look out for their users.

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“While Google, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter all say that they’re cooperating and acting in the best interest of citizens to remove this content, they’re actually not because they’re allowing these videos to reappear all the time,” Lucinda Creighton, a senior adviser at international policy organization the Counter Extremism Project, told CNN.

Four people have been arrested shootings, media reports show, but others mention three people. A 28-year-old Australian man calling himself Brenton Tarrant connected himself to the shootings after posting a manifesto on his childhood, his fear of white genocide and his desire to send a message that “nowhere in the world is safe.”

YouTube has yet to remove all of the videos of the shooting.

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